Xiaojin Siguniang Mountain
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Xiaojin Siguniang Mountain (小金四姑娘山) | |
| Address: | Rilong Town, Xiaojin Country, Aba prefecture, Sichuang Province., Aba, Sichuan |
| Phone: | 0837-2791847，2791867 |
| Price Range: | Low Season (Dec. 1st to Mar. 31st): Shuangqiaogou: 50yuan a person, Changpinggou: 50yuan a person, Haizigou: 50yuan a person; touring bus: Shuangqiaogou 50yuan a person, Changpinggou: 20yuan a person. ~ Busy Season (Apr. 1st to Nov. 30th): Shuangqiaogou: 80yuan a person, Changpinggou: 70yuan a person, Haizigou: 60yuan a person; touring bus: Shuangqiaogou 80yuan a person, Changpinggou: 20yuan a person. |
| Hours: | All day long |
| Level: | AAAA |
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| Short Description: | Siguniang Mountain Scenery has abundant touring resources, such as mountains reflecting in the lakes, wide grassland, modern glacier together with the vertical eco-species, etc. There are old quartus glacier vestige in the mountain, besides various mines such as beryl and amazonite etc. |
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[edit] Description
Siguniang Mountain (Four Girls) is located in Rilong Town, east of Xiaojin Country, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuang Province. It makes up of Siguniang Mountain, Shuangqiaogou, Changpinggou, Haizigou, and covers an area of over 450 square kilometer. It is named because of the 4 continuous peaks in an area of 35km, which are like 4 pretty girls standing behind the white cloud. Siguniang Mountain Scenery makes up of three valleys and a mountain. The three valleys are Shuangqiaogou, Changpinggou and Haizigou, and the mountain is Siguniang Mountain. Siguniang Mountain is the main peak of Qionglai Mountain. The mountains are steep and rough, and the unique mountains and peaks, glaciers and waterfalls, lakes, forest, grassland, and various flowers and animals, makes up of the special altiplano mountain scenery. Because of its beautiful South European scenery, it is usually called “Chinese Alps”.
Among the Henduan Mountains, there are four adjacent peaks that comprise the Four-Girl Mountain Range. They are located in Rilong Town on the border of Xiaojin County and Wenchuan County in Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. It is 3,160 meters high above sea level and 220 km from Chengdu.
It lies among several tributaries on the northern bank of the Wori River, which flows on the southern side of the mountain. The total area is 450 square km. Some gullies stretch to more than 10 km and even to scores of km from the north to the south.
The Four-Girl Mountain (Si Gu Niang Shan) is covered by snow and ice all year round and is called "the Alps in the East". It is a scenic area at national Four-A level and has become a tourist site frequented by domestic and foreign mountain climbers.
Mysterious Mountain
The four mysterious peaks of the Four-Girl Mountain are surrounded by more than 10 snowy peaks, among which, the 4th peak is the highest with an elevation of 6250 meters, second only to Gonggar Mountain with an elevation of 7,556 meters, which is "the King of Shu Mountains" in the Sichuan area. The elevations of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd peak are 5,355 meters, 5,454 meters and 5,664 meters respectively. Like four girls, they are as white as ice and as pearly colored as jade, and are very pretty and charming. The precipice of the 4th peak is so high that nobody has ever climbed it.
Just some ten years ago the Four-Girl Mountain was absolutely isolated from the world. On the mountain, some original ecological sceneery is preserved, attracting people to appreciate its mysterious beauty.
Today, the Four-Girl Mountain consists of a group of scenic areas and is a tourist site with multiple functions for people to enjoy sightseeing, mountain climbing, exploration, scientific investigation, holidays and outings. Within the area, the four scenic tourist routes of Shuangqiao Gully, Changping Gully, Haizi Gully and Gozhuangping seem like four movements of this excellent music of nature.
Colorful Shuangqiao Gully
Shuangqiao Gully extends 34.8 km and covers an area of about 216.6 square km. This scenic area consists of three sections. In the gully, people can view more than 10 snow mountains with the height of over 4,000 meters above sea level.
The lower section is Yangliu Bridge with some mysterious scenes such as Yinyang Gully, poplar forestry strip, Sun and Moon and Precious Mirror Mountain, and Five-Color Mountain etc.
The middle section is Nianyu Dam, including Renshenguo Level Ground, sand thorn forest, Jianshanzi, Jiujiahai and other scenic sites.
The upper section is Niupengzi Lawn and Changhe Beach, including Hunter Peak, Niupengzi, Changhe Dam and other scenic sites.
Among the scenic sites, the Ape Peak and Hunter Peak are very astonishing, and those mountains and stones with various mysterious legends such as Five-Color Mountain and Plenilune Mountain show their special spirit.
The highways winding through Shuangqiao Gully string together all the mysterious and beautiful scenic sites like a dazzling brilliant necklace.
Shuangqiao Gully is wide and flat with running brooks. Mountains are covered by original forests. About ten mountains there, including Five-Color Mountain and Hunter Peak, are lofty and steep like sharp swords being pulled from their sheaths to protect Four-Girl Mountain. They make a great background to the scenes in Shuangqiao Gully.
Romantic Changping Gully
Changping Gully was developed earlier and is comparatively mature. It mainly consists of forests, valleys and snowy mountains towering over valleys. It extends 29 km and covers an area of some 100 square km. The Four-Girl Mountain lies 16 km inside the gully. Only part of the roads are open to traffic and the rest are only suitable for people to walk or ride horses. The alley to the Four-Girl Mountain through Changping Gully is very narrow and winding. Coniferous forest, broadleaf forest, sub-forests, shrub wood and weed clusters joggle together and exhibit their contrasting charms.
In Changping Gully, there are ancient cypresses, lama monasteries, Dried Haizi and a waterfall scores of meters high. Tourists generally like to visit it. When they cross Changping Gully riding on horses, pass through original forests, bestride brooks, and surmount the snow-covered mountains, they can eventually camp after a trip of six or seven hours.
[edit] Traffic
Exterior Transportation: There is few coach from Chengdu straightly to Siguniang Mountain, but there are coaches from Ximen Coach Station to Xiaojin Country of Aba Prefecture, which will pass by Siguniang Mountain. The self-help travelers can take the coach and get off at Rilong Town where Siguniang Mountain is located.
[edit] Tips
- There is a horse renting house at Lama Temple, and the price is 50 to 200yuan a day. You can rent the horse at the renting house. When it is the busy season of touring the price will go high. There are no road for car in Haizigou but only cragged paths, and you can either walk or ride a horse. From Changping Village to Guozhangping is 3km rising path; from Guozhuangping to Laoniuyuanzi is 8km, and from Laoniuyuanzi to Dahaizi is 2km; from Dahaizi to Huahaizi is 2km, and from Huahaizi to Shuanghaizi is 8km. The whole touring will take a day. To Dahaizi and Huahaizi you can choose walking which will take about 20 minutes, and you can ask the stableman to wait at Dahaizi. Renting a horse to Dahaizi will cost about 60yuan a person. Walking or riding a horse for one day can only trip between Huahaizi and Dahaizi, or for two day then can go to Shuanghaizi. You can climb Daguniang Mountain from Haizigou, but you’d better hire a guide from local people of Changpinggou.
- All the information is for reference only. You should accord to the fact if there are any changes.
[edit] Complain
- Complaint call of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture Tourism Office: 0837-96927
- Complaint call of Sichuan Province Tourism Office: 028-86657308
- Complaint call of State Tourism Office: 010-65275315
[edit] Best Travel Time
Siguniang Mountain is the typical altiplano climate which is cool in the morning and night and hot at noon. There are blue sky and white clouds in the daytime and masses of stars at night. June is the spring of Siguniang Mountain when you can see the wild flowers blooming all over the mountain. It is cold in winter with thick snow, and rains a lot in spring. The best time for touring is in the summer and autumn.
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